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Comment by jimmyed | Hacker News Reader

Not sure how anyone can feel proud of "projects" like these. This is mostly janitorial work with zero coding, made viral by hordes of wannabe frontend devs. I wouldn't mention this project on my resume.

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> hordes of wannabe frontend devs

Classic HN gatekeeping, this is so unnecessarily degrading. Everyone starts somewhere, and like it or not, making clones is a very good way to learn about the basics of web dev. If they make a good clone and want to share it and get feedback, what's the harm?

In my experience, those who moan about the simplicity of others' work are the least likely to release something of their own.

Not everything needs to have a machine learning moon-rocket-launching cryptomining discombobulator to be useful and a job well done.

You misread his comment. He's bemoaning wannaba devs creating these readme "projects" not the owners of the actual clone projects that actually do require programming skills.

I agree with him, these readme compilation things are just dev.to bait

If you think "janitorial" work with zero coding is unimportant I assume you were never involved in any project that's a little too big for a single programmer doing everything. And what's so bad about making potentially interesting projects more visible?

Compilations are derivatives of original work. There is nothing inherently wrong with compilations being more popular but the effort put into it is much less. Clicks don't take effort or other metrics into account.

Thinking about this more deeply raises more questions: What is effort? Is it measured in time or competence needed? Is promoting less effort? How could it be achieved that the credit distributes adequately across original work and derivatives?

I hate hate hate doing "janitorial" work and thus I feel really happy when somebody does janitorial work in such a helpful and useful way. Not sure where this falls on the "proudness" scale, but it doesn't really matter.

What an absolutely horrible sentiment. Just because this is not something you'd consider doing does not mean it's not something someone can feel proud of.

It's not technically complex but it shows that he recognized a need for something in the community and provided a solution with proof that people liked it. A software developer is way more than just a coder; which many people seem to forget.

This[0] might be the reason why :)

[0]: https://jacobian.org/2021/apr/7/embrace-the-grind/

> This is mostly janitorial work with zero coding

not everything in life is coding?

it shadows the real coding works on github

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